Posts Tagged ‘.NET’

Custom SharePoint Workflow MetaData

Have you ever wondered what VooDoo is going on in the “MetaData” element in the sharepoint workflow template definition (Workflow.xml)? No? Well I have.
It’s not documented, but you can read it using the SharePoint Workflow API. (The method you can call is documented, that is, listed, in the MSDN documentation. It’s not actually [...]

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Down the rabbit hole with LINQ-to-SQL.

Man, just when I thought I was starting to get the hang of LINQ-to-SQL and knowing what kind of cool features it has, I ran into some interesting problems. For one the DataContext needs to have an ‘appropriate lifetime’ which means you have to play around with it, there aren’t real standards. The [...]

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